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Staring at the Light (Paperback)

by Frances Fyfield (Author)
1.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 397 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (2 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552145262
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552145268
  • Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,863,696 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Who is the current Queen of Crime? Rendell and James may still be jockeying for top position, but if Fyfield continues to turn out sterling work like this, they'd better look to their laurels. Each new book establishes her authority as a first-rate crime writer, and her territory is subtly different from her rivals. She is always good at the terrifying internecine warfare of family life, and demonstrates a scarifying grasp of twisted personalities. The plot for the new one is genuinely original: the troubled John Smith is set on the rack when the only person he was ever capable of loving is stolen from him.This is his twin brother, Cannon, who has married a woman he is deeply in love with. But seeing his brother's pathological desire to restore their relationship, Cannon (a sometime bombmaker and artist) goes into hiding. The quirky lawyer Sarah Fortune becomes involved with him and his wife, the real target of the disturbed brother. But is all as it seems? While delivering a powerful narrative of off-kilter psychology, Fyfield is really interested in the nature of evil, and the way in which her protagonists are obliged to deal with it. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Someone has stolen the only person John Smith has ever loved - his twin brother, Cannon, and Johnny will stop at nothing to get him back. But Cannon's married now and he loves his wife. Is Johnny really intent on inflicting unendurable pain on the woman who has hijacked his brother's affections?

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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring and uninteresting, 28 April 2001
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I have not read anything from Francis Fyfeild before, and I dont think I will again either. This book never caught my imagionation, but rather than give up on it I finished the book. Thriller was hardly a good discription , the author concentrated more on long winded discriptions of every suituation, and her charectors were all weak...My Feeling on this book is its to be avoided.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not her best, but her worst is better than most, 2 Aug 2000
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Frances Fyfield is one of (if not the) most intelligent of current thriller writers. Her Helen West and Sarah Fortune novels are engrossing beacuse of their non judgemental compassion for all the characters and Fyfield's grasp of the tiny detail - the "minute particulars" - which build character and plot in a believable and human way. This book is less successful, possibly because there is not a main person who holds the moral centre. Nevertheless everything Fyfield writes is more worth reading than any number of the "best sellers" currently available. Recommended.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Simply dreadful, 30 Jul 2000
I bought this out of desperation when I finished all my holiday reading and was restricted to a (very) limited choice of new book on a small Greek island. A cast of dislikeable, self-obsessed and frankly unbelievable characters in a turgid plot.I gave up on it !
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1.0 out of 5 stars Too clever for her own good
One of the few books that I've ever given up on. When reading a thriller I expect to be gripped by the story or characters within a few pages. Read more
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